mark the position and were constructed of stone and brick. This court yard is now (1909) a lawn with flower beds and beyond the pillars is a larger lawn, on one side and end of which are flower borders and on the other side are palisades. It is a fine solid stone mansion built of sandstone and stone slate as early as 1500, roomy, comfortable and somewhat elegant of construction. The main body of the house is about thirty four feet wide and the rooms, running from the front walls to the back, consist of a dining room (now the morning room) twenty feet square, a drawing room seventeen by thirty four, a second drawing room opening from that, and a smoking room and lavatory beyond. There is a door at the back of the house which opens into the drive way as the approach is from the rear. The front door opens from the dining room into the court yard and besides this there is another door in the corner towards the east wing which also opens into the court yard. In 1885 Mr. Bingley built the present dining room on the west end of the main house adjoining the kitchen. On one of the dining room windows are several diamond-cut inscriptions as follows: "Dear Miss Fanny Shiercliff," "Dear Miss hannah Shiercliffe," "Miss Helen Wright," "Wm. Wordsworth," and a couplet

"Beauty and Youth in vain to these we trust

When Youth and Beauty shall be laid in Dust"-Helen Wright The easterly end of the main house seems to have been added in 1584 and over a doorway in its south east corner is this inscription: "William Parker made this worke 1584." The east wing appears to have been added in 1683 and joins the house over this door thus converting it into an inside door instead of an outside one. This wing consists of two gables and is nearly all used as lumber room except for an improvised nursery upstairs of about sixteen by twenty feet. There are two doors which open into the court yard from this wing and two also on the opposite or easterly side of which the two latter have the initials N M over the door head with S above and 1683 below, (Nicholas and Mary Shiercliffe 1683). The west wing is the older and has two kitchens with bed rooms above and a separate stair case. There is a back door

opening into the kitchen yard and a very heavy door, studded with nails, which opens into the court yard. There is no date outside but a fireplace bears date of 1660, still the wing is much older than that. The house has its haunted chamber where the wicked Shurtleff died, one wicked Shurtleff it seems! It appears to be simply in law-suiting that his wickedness consisted, for there are still in existence letters of exhaustive law suits of Nicholas and his set. He had grown to be so obese that his body was removed from the upper story by cutting an aperture in the floor, and letting it down; no window or door being large enough. The upper end chamber in this wing is the room where he died. In 1740 Thomas Shiercliffe rebuilt the front with large windows and over the front door and above the window placed a sun-dial which bears the date 1740 and his initials T S. The grounds embraced originally several hundred acres and now contain about two hundred, a pretty park of old wood, a lakelet, a running brook, ample gardens and well kept lawns. Whitley Hall is one of the oldest seats of gentry in the parish, indeed, there is a tradition, though unsupported by evidence, that it afforded a resting-place for one night to the illfated Mary Queen of Scots, while in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury at Sheffield Castle and his other seats in the neighborhood. Rooms in the west wing are